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Seems there's someone in England with my name and using it on gmail (without the period between names)

Posted by Meg (aka Mojave) Dec 10 '18, 09:11

She has a surgical appointment on the 18th.

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I get my Internet-doppleganger's email all the time. - ReluctantCynic Dec 10, 10:32 2
- I tried a Google search and got pages and pages of Meghan Markle links. Seems she has some Galway heritage :) -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 10:45 1
  - Maybe you're related? - ReluctantCynic Dec 10, 11:01
Gmail ignores periods. So if you send something to [email protected], it's no different than [email protected] or any variation. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 10, 09:16 18
- Yup. I told my gf that years ago and she didn't believe me. -- nm - Krusty Dec 10, 09:35 1
  - Looks like there is a caveat. Note: If you use Gmail through work, school, or other organization (like yourdomain.com or yourschool.edu) - JaxSean Dec 10, 09:53
- That was what I thought, so I wonder if they misspelled her name. It's from an automated 'no reply' email and at first I thought it might be spam. -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 09:33
- Huh. -- nm - Mop Dec 10, 09:20 14
  - They also ignore + and anything after it so if you want to make "unique" email addresses to see who is selling your contact info, you can do - oblique Dec 10, 09:21 12
    - Didn't they stop that a few years back? -- nm - Shaun Dec 10, 09:35 2
      - No, still works. More websites don't let you do it, though as a check on the front end. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 10, 09:57 1
        
        I remember a bunch of years ago when Amazon.ca was giving $10 off an order of $40 or more for new customers. - Shaun Dec 10, 09:59
    - Everytime I've tried this the system I was trying to give such an email to would not accept the + -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:25 5
      - Yeah, that's been the most common glitch in the system. + is a valid SMTP email address per the spec but quite a few places get hung up on it - oblique Dec 10, 09:26 4
        
        Yeah, it just depends on how robust the system is that you're creating an email address account/subscription for. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 10, 09:31
        
        It they know that truck and are preventing it. -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:28 1
        
        Trick, truck ... Potato, potahto -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:29
        
        The spec is not very well defined, basically any filtering on email address characters is going to hit an edge case. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 09:27
    - I did this for my badge at ReInvent, which all the vendors scanned using RFID - giving them my email address. - Beryllium Dec 10, 09:23 2
      - It works really well also for "fooling" hackers because it is typically unique for the place you give your email to but if someone thinks your -- (edited) - oblique Dec 10, 09:25 1
        
        This is not what I was expecting and is a valuable tip, thanks. -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:27
  - Yeah, it has been mentioned on ST. I use it. You can set up filters using it. -- nm - Spawn Dec 10, 09:20
.....she just.....doesn't know she'll need it yet, is what you're saying, right? Right??? -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 09:13
Euphemism? -- nm - Reagen Dec 10, 09:12

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